Birmingham healthcare / nursing
Qualified Social Worker Referral and Assessment (Children)
A Qualified Social Worker is required to join the Children's Referral and Assessment team in Birmingham.
Working within the Children's Referral and Assessment team, this Qualified Social Worker will have the following responsibilities:
- Undertake the assessment of children, families and carers using the relevant assessment framework.
- Develop and participate in relevant care plans.
- Ensure that service users' views are fully recorded during the assessment process and where possible are reflected in the subsequent case planning.
- Prepare and present reports in a clear and logical way, and contribute to multi-agency conferences and meetings as appropriate.
- To include cost / 'best value' considerations in identification of resources and case planning.
- Undertake single or joint agency enquiries to assess likely and actual harm to children and take appropriate action to ensure their safety.
- Develop and implement child protection plans.
- To lead on complex assessments with children, young people and their families/carers where there are specific concerns requiring a high level of specialist involvement.
The successful Qualified Social Worker will have experience in Child Protection work, especially Section 47 investigations and assessments. Candidates must be GSCC registered and hold a current CRB.
To discuss this role or any other Qualified Social Worker jobs in Birmingham or in the Referral and Assessment of children field please contact the Social Care team at The Synergy Group on 0113 388 4200 or email your CV to socialcareleeds[at]synergygroup.co.uk
Working with The Synergy Group offers:
- The most experienced Social Work recruitment team in the UK
- Access to the broadest selection of Social Work vacancies in the UK
- The choice of PAYE or limited company schemes
- Weekly payroll service
- Excellent rates of pay
- Personal service
The Synergy Group is a specialist recruiter of Social Work jobs, to view a full selection of our current vacancies please visit synergygroup.co.uk
The Synergy Group is an equal opportunities employer. For more opportunities, please visit www.synergygroup.co.uk